Violent Affections uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia ...before and after the introduction of ‘gay propaganda’ law, the book shows how violent acts are framed in emotional language by perpetrators during their criminal trials. It then utilises an original methodology of studying ‘legal memes’ and argues that these individual affective states are directly connected to the political violence aimed at queer lives more generally. The main aim of Violent Affections is to explore the social mechanisms and techniques that impact anti-queer violence evidenced in the reviewed cases. Alexander Sasha Kondakov expands upon two sets of interdisciplinary literature – queer theory and affect theory – in order to conceptualise what is referred to as neo-disciplinary power. Taking the empirical observations from Russia as a starting point, he develops an original explanation of how contemporary power relations are changing from those of late modernity as envisioned by Foucault’s Panopticon to neo-disciplinary power relations of a much more fragmented, fluid and unstructured kind – the Memeticon. The book traces how exactly affections circulate from body to body as a kind of virus and eventually invade the body that responds with violence. In this analytic effort, it draws on the arguments from memetics – the theory of how pieces of information pass on from one body to another as they thrive to survive by continuing to resonate. This work makes the argument truly interdisciplinary.
Advertising at War challenges the notion that advertising disappeared as a political issue in the United States in 1938 with the passage of the Wheeler-Lea Amendment to the Federal Trade Commission ...Act, the result of more than a decade of campaigning to regulate the advertising industry. Inger L. Stole suggests that the war experience, even more than the legislative battles of the 1930s, defined the role of advertising in U.S. postwar political economy and the nation's cultural firmament. She argues that Washington and Madison Avenue were soon working in tandem with the creation of the Advertising Council in 1942, a joint effort established by the Office of War Information, the Association of National Advertisers, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies._x000B__x000B_Using archival sources, newspapers accounts, and trade publications, Stole demonstrates that the war elevated and magnified the seeming contradictions of advertising and allowed critics of these practices one final opportunity to corral and regulate the institution of advertising. Exploring how New Dealers and consumer advocates such as the Consumers Union battled the advertising industry, Advertising at War traces the debate over two basic policy questions: whether advertising should continue to be a tax-deductible business expense during the war, and whether the government should require effective standards and labeling for consumer products, which would render most advertising irrelevant. Ultimately the postwar climate of political intolerance and reverence for free enterprise quashed critical investigations into the advertising industry. While advertising could be criticized or lampooned, the institution itself became inviolable._x000B_
En un momento de redescubrimiento global de la historia del anarquismo, dar el debate sobre los orígenes del caso boliviano constituye un ejercicio que puede aportar en la mejor comprensión, no sólo ...de la historia social y política de Bolivia, sino también de los procesos de difusión y recepción de las ideas de izquierda en América Latina. Sobre la base de un amplio corpus hemerográfico y archivístico, en este artículo examinamos el surgimiento y desarrollo de las agrupaciones de propaganda anarquista en La Paz entre 1923 y 1926, cuyos integrantes crearon un año después la Federación Obrera Local. Apoyados en los aportes metodológicos del giro transnacional últimamente aplicados en los estudios anarquistas, pero también cuestionando aquellos trabajos que, como parte de este giro, se concentraron exclusivamente en la escala transnacional, revelaremos en él la doble dimensión de un proceso de largo aliento que fue regional y local y asimismo tuvo un sentido bidireccional.
This article situates Journal de Spirou and its flagship title in the context of Belgium's imperial history. It examines pro-empire messages in the magazine from the inaugural issue in 1938 up to the ...independence of the Congo in 1960. The magazine is one of Europe's most successful, and the bellboy whose name is on the cover has evolved into a true icon of Franco - Belgian comics. Less known is the role Spirou played in promoting the colonial idea to its readers during the decades coinciding with Belgium's overseas rule. In contrast to rival Tintin, who only went to the colony once, the Congo becomes Spirou's most frequent itinerary. Throughout Belgium's colonial period, Spirou makes use of dehumanising depictions of black Africans; depictions that affirm a message of white supremacy embedded in the storylines. In short, both the famous bellboy and the magazine carrying his name position themselves as significant actors in the field of bande dessinée in terms of providing justifications for colonialism.
Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi dönemi sinemacıları arasında en tartışmalı isimlerin başında gelir. Nazi Partisi iktidarı boyunca çektiǧi filmler, kimi çevrelerce Nazi iktidarıyla işbirliǧinin belgesi, ...kimileri için de salt sanattır. II. Dünya Savaşı sonrası üretimi üzerine yapılan deǧerlendirmeler ise kimi zaman faşist estetiǧin izlerini takip eder, kimi zamansa filmlerini ideolojiden azade imgelere indirger. Yaşamı boyunca filmlerinin ideolojik deǧerini reddeden ve kendisini uyumun ve güzelliǧin yönetmeni olarak savunmaya çabalayan Riefenstahl'in sineması, bu makalede sürdürülen bu iki kutuplu tartışma ekseninde ele alınmaktadır. Riefenstahl'in adı sıkça Nazi dönemi propaganda sinemasına damgasını vuracak olan İradenin Zaferi (1935) ve Olympia I. ve II. Bölüm (1938) filmleriyle anılır. 1970'lerden itibaren ise bir Afrika kabilesi olan Nubaların fotoǧraflarını ve sonraki yıllarda sualtını gösteren çekimlerle yeniden gündem olur. Aynı yıllar Riefenstahl için geçmişinin rehabilite edildiǧi, kendisinin de bir tür Rönesans yaşadıǧı yeni bir dönemin başlangıcı olur. Riefenstahl'in Nazi dönemi ile bu dönemin öncesi ve sonrası ürettiǧi estetiǧi ve imgeleri arasında bir izleǧin mevcudiyetine inanan Susan Sontag, bu rehabilitasyon sürecine karşı çıkar. "Sanat sanat içindir" fikri ile göstermenin ve görmenin etiǧi karşı karşıya gelir. Makale Riefenstahl'in filmlerini, yaşamöyküsünü, söylemlerini ve Sontag'ın müdahalesini esas alarak sinema aracılıǧıyla faşist propagandanın yapısını ve liberal toplumda etkisini sürdürebildiǧi çeperi ortaya koymak ve tartışmak niyeti taşımaktadır.
Although China's official position on the war has been that of neutrality-not aligning with the West against Russia and not directly supporting Russia's war in Ukraine-its communications about the ...war, in particular its propaganda via state media and Foreign Ministry spokespeople have carried a more pro-Russia stance. During the past two months of the Russia-Ukraine war, Chinese official messaging has echoed and reinforced Russia's position: 1.) by promoting shared narratives about the origins and culprits of the war, namely blaming NATO and the United States; 2.) by drawing disproportionally on Russian sources and footage of the war; and 3.) by under-reporting on Ukraine's perspectives. This pro-Russia leaning during the Ukraine crisis can be understood as part of a larger propaganda trajectory vis-à-vis Russia and the United States. Domestically, China's propaganda messaging in large part appears to resonate with public opinion. Internationally, however, Chinese propaganda about the war, especially communications by Foreign Ministry spokespeople, delude China's neutrality position and antagonize the West, while more integrating China into the Global South.
The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, commonly called Propaganda Fide, turned four hundred years old on January 6, 2022. Here we try to answer three fundamental questions about the ...Congregation: Why? For what purpose? Has it succeeded in reaching its objectives? We present here only the highlights of the history and activity of this organ of the Holy See in the service of the missionary world, including its coordination of the work of evangelization, missionary formation, and missionary cooperation.
The paper reflects on the contribution that pedagogy can, and must, make to politics to reaffirm the values of peace and democracy: this is a particularly urgent task at the present time and for ...future scenarios. Keywords. Pedagogy - Politics - Propaganda - War - Peace Education
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